Thank you.

Historian Robert Calhoon said the consensus of historians is that between 40 and 45 percent of the white population in the Thirteen Colonies supported the Patriots' cause, between 15 and 20% supported the Loyalists, and the remainder were neutral or kept a low profile.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)

I read 1/3 favored the Blue Coats, 1/3 favored the Red Coats, and 1/3 were waiting to side with the winners.

Many of the 1/3 left for what is now Eastern Canada...Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI.

If we lost the Revolutionary War we would never have Thump.

We likely would have got our independence and had a parliamentary system like Great Britain.

30 years earlier.

But the tax on Tea would have been sky high.

We would never have become a superpower. We had a hell of a ride. God willing we will get past Thump. If not, I will mourn the loss of the America I knew and loved.

I believe the best thing we did is not allow him to get comfortable, is not allow him to get his footing. I am a huge boxing fan. I remember when Joe Frazier beat my idol, Muhammad Ali, in their first fight he never let him get comfortable. He took it to him.

I found 14 Revolutionary War soldier ancestors when I researched my family tree years ago!

Well, one of them was a Hessian soldier (fighting for King George) that decided to stay here and another one was a loyalist who was hanged for conspiring with the British and the American Indians. He also printed counterfeit money in an effort to make the American currency worthless. He was in his 60's! His wife had descended from royalty in England, so maybe that played a role in his loyalty to King George? Historical accounts indicated that many people were appalled by his hanging because he wasn't even given a trial. A sheriff and his men aligned with the rebels decided his guilt on the spot and hanged him from a tree.

There was no way the South was going to give up slavery without a war. The war would have been in the slave states.

has been updated among historians to more like 40 - 50%.

he fought to secure this country against.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

Because if you mean actively, you are off by a factor of 10.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myths-of-the-american-revolution-10941835/

The Continental Army was about 100k out of 2M, 5%, and they had to be very very aggressively and creatively recruited.

I said support. Approve. In favor of....

a functioning government with a history. The American Revolution was a dark horse.

Now the U.S. government is still mostly functioning, except where the republicans have managed to fuck things up.